Tronsmart TV Box Ara X5 in August with Cherry Trail Z8300 Windows 10

[alwaysbless]

In case anyones interested I picked up this targus chill mat from amazon for 7 bucks. Its a pretty much a mini version of a laptop cooling pad, it also doubles as a base, is USB powered and wide enough to fit two tv boxes. Pretty damn cool imo. - http://amzn.to/1KGL4ho

[maguirre]

Bluesmanuk
Which shipment method do you recommend(Registered Airmail -Dhl-TNT to the UK?
Thanks

[centrino77]

I have the same problem. I am using the type of keyboard pictured below. It seems to work while ever the bluetooth window from settings is open. As soon as the settings windows is closed, the keyboard stops working.

Lol, I have exactly the same keyboard, not the same box but you know that with the chinese products it may come from the same factory.

Bluesmanuk, I should be able to do it on the keyboard properties ? Will look tonight.

EDIT : I ll try this : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2758967

Edit 2 : it works, just had to disable auto sleep of devices on the properties of bt radio.

[bluesmanuk]

Very Thanks ,Downloading.

It will be very interesting to see how much disk space is left after your installation as I would have expected a WIM image for W10.

I have noted that there is a recovery partition on the X5 but it's only 450Mb, which does seem rather small.

[bluesmanuk]

Hello,

The product seems great but I have issues for the BT :
I have a small BT keyboard which work fine with my old laptop.
The ara can detect it (but it takes time) but when connected it works only for 20s, you have to go back to the windows bt research window to get it back a bit, but unstable ... I saw the keyboard "connected" status but once it glimbsed to driver pb.

Anyone, maybe related to the post above.

Will try with the broadcom tool. Windows says the driver is up to date ...

I don't have a bluetooth keyboard but I have a BT enabled soundbar and also some BT headphones which work well for me.

When it comes to BT I always disable the power management settings in any BT controller and as some are linked to the WiFi module I do it there too.

[No^^aD]

Hello,

The product seems great but I have issues for the BT :
I have a small BT keyboard which work fine with my old laptop.
The ara can detect it (but it takes time) but when connected it works only for 20s, you have to go back to the windows bt research window to get it back a bit, but unstable ... I saw the keyboard "connected" status but once it glimbsed to driver pb.

Anyone, maybe related to the post above.

Will try with the broadcom tool. Windows says the driver is up to date ...

I have the same problem. I am using the type of keyboard pictured below. It seems to work while ever the bluetooth window from settings is open. As soon as the settings windows is closed, the keyboard stops working.

[noom9999]

Hi you can download windows 10 direct from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/softw...load/windows10

Very Thanks ,Downloading.

[blinkone]

Hello everyone

My Tronsmart Ara X5 have boot loop cannot access Windows
I want install the new Windows 10, but no have image file for Tronsmart Ara X5
Anyone have suggestions or image file ,pls help me

Thanks in advance

Hi you can download windows 10 direct from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/softw...load/windows10

[noom9999]

Hello everyone

My Tronsmart Ara X5 have boot loop cannot access Windows
I want install the new Windows 10, but no have image file for Tronsmart Ara X5
Anyone have suggestions or image file ,pls help me

Thanks in advance

[centrino77]

Hello,

The product seems great but I have issues for the BT :
I have a small BT keyboard which work fine with my old laptop.
The ara can detect it (but it takes time) but when connected it works only for 20s, you have to go back to the windows bt research window to get it back a bit, but unstable ... I saw the keyboard "connected" status but once it glimbsed to driver pb.

Anyone, maybe related to the post above.

Will try with the broadcom tool. Windows says the driver is up to date ...

[Myst3r]

Hi all

A few feed back after some hours with the beast :

+ The videos plays pretty well with the windows 10 stock media player, even Audio passthrough (DTS and Dolby) through HDMI works perfect (after one or two reboot of the box - windows update ?). I watch movies mostly in 720p through my local network, and every thing is OK. I did'nt try Kodi yet
+ Console emulation Retroarch http://www.libretro.com/ seems to work pretty well too, except I had to copy a D3DX9_43.dll from an other computer, because it's missing in Windwos 10 and I did'nt manage to install older Direct X version like DirectX 9.0c. I tried during a few minutes Super Nintendo, Megadrive and N64 games with sucess @ 60 fps or 50fps depending of the game.

BUT

- I spend MANY hours (in fact most of the time I had on the box) trying to connect a PS3 controller through Bluetooth. I've never managed to do it. I'm really sad because It's my best friend for Arcade and Retro gaming because of the very good directionnal cross compared to the other controllers I have. I use now a XBox360 USB controller, but the directionnal cross is very very very bad. So if somebody manage to connect a PS3 controller through Bluetooth, please share how you manage to do it !
- I did'nt manage to "connect-to-the-computer-remotely" with the windows tool. It's sad because sometime I want to use the box, but my wife want to watch TV !

[Eclecticon]

Ok cool, i might buy one.

[alwaysbless]

what controller did you use?

Used my xbox one controller connected with a micro usb cable. I need to pick up some batteries so I can try it out wireless but wired the performance was great and it was very playable

[Eclecticon]

Gave xbox one game streaming a try just now and it ran smooth af. Played Forza 6 for approx half an hour and the box didnt even hardly get warm. I have a review on this and steam game streaming im working on now but this thing is pretty bad ass I must say

what controller did you use?

[clarkss12]

Gave xbox one game streaming a try just now and it ran smooth af. Played Forza 6 for approx half an hour and the box didnt even hardly get warm. I have a review on this and steam game streaming im working on now but this thing is pretty bad ass I must say

Thanks for that information, I have one on order and gaming was one of the things I wish to try. First off, I am not a gamer, I have a PS3, but never used it for gaming, same thing for the Xbox 360 I had before it died, no games played on it, just used those boxes to stream media from my computer years ago.

However, years ago I played some computer games using my keyboard and mouse, and going to see if I can play them on this new intel box running Windows 10. I have converted several of my older games so I don't need to have my game CD in the CD player in order to play the game, hope this works with Windows 10 on this new box. I have Far Cry, Call of Duty, etc. was never any good at it, and have never finished any of the games, too hard for me, hahaha. I am going to give it a shot just for the heck of it.